Senior Backend Engineer (PHP)

About the role

We run the settlement engine that moves money for about 4,000 merchants a day. You would own the parts written in PHP 8.2 — the reconciliation pipeline, the merchant API and the nightly payout batches.

Small team, no layers. You would be the person others ask when they need to know how settlement actually behaves under load.

What you would do

• Own the reconciliation pipeline end to end
• Design and ship the merchant-facing API
• Keep payout batches inside the settlement window
• Review the team's SQL before it reaches production

What we are looking for

• Four or more years writing PHP in production
• Comfortable in SQL well beyond ORM queries
• Have worked somewhere correctness mattered more than speed
• Can read a slow query plan and act on it

What we offer

• Health cover for you and your family
• Home office budget
• Four days a week in office, Fridays remote

Skills